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Daniel S. Katz
@danielskatz.org
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Chief Scientist @ NCSA, Res. Prof. @ CS & iSchool, @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Works on: computational & data science: software opensource systems tools policy practices scholcomm FAIR RSE
more active on: @danielskatz@fediscience.org
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One of the stranger things about being in Pasadena is that you can regularly say - oh, there's a peacock on the roof
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I'm reviewing computer science PhD student applications over my "break" and am amazed at them. It's hard to find any that don't seem like they would be good PhD students, and they almost all have interesting stories and strong recommendations.
December 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Costa Rica nature, Nov/Dec 2025 (22/?): Amazon Kingfisher (x2), Ringed Kingfisher, Three-wattled Bellbird

#Birds #BirdPhotography #CostaRica
December 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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2025 saw tremendous momentum at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, coming to Chicago's southeast side. It'll be a first-of-its-kind campus built for quantum technology and microelectronics innovation and scale-up.

Read more about them 👉 https://iqmp.org/ #SystemStories2025

an artist's rendering of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park
December 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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A Cooper's Hawk in Pasadena, CA, USA

#Birds #BirdPhotography
December 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Check the spotlight of one of the premier founding members of US-RSE, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ( #NCSA ), on how they help promote #RSE's impact on #research and provide valuable resources!

👉 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
December 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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A new paper:

M. Barker, J. Cohen, P. H. Serrano, D. S. Katz, K. Martin, D. Rudmann, H. Shanahan, "Institutional Policy Pathways for Supporting Research Software: Global Trends and Local Practices," Journal of Open Research Software, v.13(1), p. 39, 2025. doi.org/10.5334/jors...

(1/2)
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Just decline the peer review invitation.

What are you people even doing?
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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📣 New for #RSECon26! We’re launching a Research Software submission route! 🎉
Have software ready for publication? Submit to @joss-openjournals.bsky.social as part of RSECon26. Accepted or pre-reviewed papers get JOSS+RSECon26 branding and a 15-min talk. More info: tinyurl.com/rsecon26joss
Research Software Submissions
Research Software Papers @RSECon26 1-Rationale As part of the RSECon26 conference vision, we are launching the RSECon26 research software submissions. The goal of this new submission is to encourage…
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December 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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This is a very useful guide from Cornell Lab of Ornithology for distinguishing various North American Sparrows. The illustrations are exceptional in my opinion. 🪶

www.allaboutbirds.org/news/identif...
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December 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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"To these detectives of digital inauthenticity, I say:

Friend, welcome to a typical Tuesday in a Kenyan classroom, boardroom, or intra-office Teams chat. The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education."
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I'm very sad to see that NSF is gutting peer review, as described in doi.org/10.1126/scie...

(1/5)
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
doi.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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A week in Costa Rica after Thanksgiving with Herman from Costa Rica Gateway led to 205 bird species photographed plus some other things. (1/?): Emerald Tanager, Silver-throated Tanager, Crimson-collared Tanager, Blue-gray Tanager

#Birds #BirdPhotography
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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I'm happy to be able to say that

Y. Yehudi, M. Cashman, M. Goedicke, W. Hasselbring, D. S. Katz, S. Müller, C. Goble, C. Jay, "Research Software Lifecycles and Stages," ECEASST, v.85, Dec. 2025. doi.org/10.14279/ece...

is now available
Electronic Communications of the EASST Volume 85 Year 2025 deRsE25 - Selected Contributions of the 5th Conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany Edited by: René Caspart, Florian Goth, Oliver Karras, Jan Linxweiler, Florian Thiery, Joachim Wuttke Research Software Lifecycles and Stages Yo Yehudi, Mikaela Cashman, Michael Goedicke, Wilhelm Hasselbring, Daniel S. Katz, Sebastian Müller, Carole Goble, Caroline Jay DOI: 10.14279/eceasst.v85.2693 License: © This article is licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 License. Electronic Communications of the EASST (https://eceasst.org). Published by Berlin Universities Publishing (https://www.berlin-universities-publishing.de/) Abstract: Research software is usually developed by researchers themselves or by software developers working closely with researchers. It is typically developed to meet specific research needs. We develop and evaluate a comprehensive and flexible software lifecycle framework that reflects the unique challenges of research software. In review of related work on commercial and open-source software lifecycles, we observed limitations in addressing the heterogeneous, irregular development patterns, and longitudinal and cyclical nature of many research software projects. An initial model, which was based on case-study research of thirty-eight open-source projects was refined through collaborative discussion at a Dagstuhl seminar, introducing additional state transitions, and expanding details on blocked and active development stages for the specific context of research software. We highlight the overlap and extensions in the new model compared to prior literature and present the evaluation with the research software community. We derive the research software stages from our lifecycle model to categorise research software accordingly. Keywords: Research Software Engineering, Software Lifecyle, Development Stage, Software Maturity
December 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Via @lrasmus.bsky.social, the DOIs in pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... no longer resolve to anything, both the original that is mentioned in the title (doi.org/10.1089/vio....) and the retraction (doi.org/10.1089/vio....)

www.liebertpub.com / www.sagepub.com isn't supposed to do this...
Retraction of: Violence and Gender, 2016;3(2):100–106; DOI: 10.1089/vio.2016.0003
An official website of the United States government
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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🧭 We are happy to announce our new #SSIFellows! Read more about this year's applications and the 2026 cohort at www.software.ac.uk/news/introdu...
December 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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jbytecode.bsky.social
I need help!

🟢 One reviewer report for this JOSS article is complete.

🟠 Since we haven't got a response from the second reviewer, we need to assign a new one.

🔵 Any volunteers to review the manuscript?

🟣 Regression estimators and R.

Thank you in advance!

github.com/openjournals...
[REVIEW]: gkwreg: An R Package for Generalized Kumaraswamy Regression Models for Bounded Data · Issue #8991 · openjournals/joss-reviews
Submitting author: @evandeilton (José Evandeilton Lopes) Repository: https://github.com/evandeilton/gkwreg Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): Version: v1.0.10 Editor: @jbytecode Review...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I've collected a set of papers and articles that discuss errors in research due to software errors, in a GitHub repo: github.com/danielskatz/.... I think this could be a useful resource for many purposes, and additional contributions are welcome.
GitHub - danielskatz/errors-due-to-research-software: This repo is a list of papers that discuss errors in research due to software errors
This repo is a list of papers that discuss errors in research due to software errors - danielskatz/errors-due-to-research-software
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December 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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The Spanish is clear while the English is ambiguous cc @lingthusiasm.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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For Thanksgiving, I've started reading "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics", www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bruce... I think as recommended by Greg Wilson
The Dictator’s Handbook
“A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —Wall Street Journal Bruce Bueno de Mesqui...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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researchsoftware.bsky.social
ReSA’s Nov newsletter (preview.mailerlite.io/preview/7781...) includes:
- News from South Africa’s National Science and Technology Forum - Research Software Awards
- Research Software Community Leadership Forum (CLF) & IRSC Program Committee
- Events, including eResearch NZ/eRangahau Aotearoa 2026
ReSA News | November 2025
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November 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Reading www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen... (ok, I'm a bit behind), and saw "this whole affair is an example of why this stuff gets really messy when people start getting paid, and once you start introducing formal organizations and employees and nonprofits and lawyers and all this kind of complexity"
How Ruby Went Off the Rails
What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.
www.404media.co
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Sophie Bui, Community Manager at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, recently completed her training with Nurturing Online Communities (NOC), and shared her Project Management knowledge during her QSS.
A graphic highlighting Sophie Bui's path through the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program. It describes the courses and Mini-workshops she took, as well as her headshot and the digital badges she earned along the way.
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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How are we still making discoveries about the 5000-year-old ancestor to English, Latin, Czech, Hindi and many other languages?

In our latest episode we get enthusiastic about figuring out Proto-Indo-European with @dannybate.bsky.social!
110: The history of the history of Indo-European - Interview with Danny Bate
Before there was English, or Latin, or Czech, or Hindi, there was a language that they all have in common, which we call Proto-Indo-European. Linguists have long been fascinated by the quest to get a
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November 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM